Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Apocynaceae | Genus: Hemidesmus | Species: Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br. ex Schult. |
Habit |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Periploca indica L. |
Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | Anantamul, Dudhli | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Indian Sarsaparilla | Flowering Period | Oct-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Anatamul | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | Up to 600 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Climber | Fruit Details | Terete paired follicles, gradually narrowed, abruptly acuminate; seeds many, oblong, flattened, ventrally ridged, coma brownish-white |
| Habitat | Occurs in moist deciduous dry evergreen, wet evergreen forests and semi-evergreen forests | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | India and Sri Lanka | Bark Details | Smooth, shining, dark green |
| Distribution in manipur | Eastern | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | It is a slender, laticiferous, twining, sometimes prostrate or semi-erect shrub, roots are woody and aromatic and stem is numerous, slender, terete, thickened at the nodes | Leaf Details | The leaves are opposite, short-petioled, very variable, elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate |
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